Top 100 Quotes About Without Hope
#2. We do this job because every once in a while someone is out there without hope, desperately praying for their life, and we get to be the answer.
U.S. Coast Guard
#3. People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor
#4. How can one live without hope and longing?
Sarah Moon
#5. Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.
Charles Bukowski
#6. What makes a man, without hope, cling to a few more minutes of existence?
Graham Greene
#7. No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house cards collapses.
Rick Yancey
#8. We can see a man smiling without legs or without hands, but we can't see a man smiling without hope!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
Eric Hoffer
#10. To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#11. Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#12. Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
Jurgen Moltmann
#13. But now, in the final hours, even hope had vanished. Yet he could smile. At a point without hope he had found contentment. He knew he had tried and there was nothing to be sorry for. And this was complete victory, because it was a victory over himself.
Richard Matheson
#14. His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.
William Maxwell
#15. The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
Jane Goodall
#16. People without hope do not write novels ... [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won't survive the ordeal.
Flannery O'Connor
#17. As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope
Dean Koontz
#18. The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth.
Will Hermes
#19. She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.
Loretta Chase
#20. Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.
Thomas Carlyle
#21. For seven hundred years, my people have been enslaved without voice, without hope. Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.
Pierce Brown
#22. I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope / For hope would be hope for the wrong thing
Kenneth Paul Kramer
#23. It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
Walter Benjamin
#24. Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
P.D. James
#25. Facing future I see hope, hope that we will survive, hope that we will
prosper, hope that once again we will reap the blessings of this
magical land, for without hope I cannot live, remember the past but
do not dwell there, face the future where all our hopes stand.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
#27. A man can live three days without water; 40 days without food. But only five minutes without hope.
John Maxwell
#28. I've always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can't live for a second without hope.
Brendan Rodgers
#29. If you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
Charles Bukowski
#30. The day we put an end to believing in hope will be the day we stop existing, for without hope, we are nothing.
Kale Lawrence
#31. Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the same time, you can very well know something about where you are now (even if it is knowing that you are lost, confused, enraged or without hope).
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#32. What clouds may wet the gaze without hope of emptiness within us?
Sorin Cerin
#33. This should be my favorite part, being held and crying with Big Bob without hope. We all work so hard all the time. This is the only place I ever really relax and give up.
Chuck Palahniuk
#34. Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#35. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. ~ Oscar Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein II
#36. Time is a great teacher,
Who can live without hope?
Carl Sandburg
#37. He seemed unaware of what was going on, stared out without hope or ambition, without worry, developing a quality devoid of qualities to get him through this life.
Kiran Desai
#38. Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
Hal Lindsey
#39. The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
Pope John Paul II
#40. Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.
Toni Morrison
#41. What I'm saying is, without hope, there could not be disappointment." The
Stacey Lee
#42. If we don't fight, we've already lost. Without hope, without trying, there's no point.
Heather Anastasiu
#43. Hope is to the soul what oxygen is to the body. As the body without oxygen dies, so is dead the soul without hope
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#44. It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.
Maria Luisa Bombal
#45. Hope.
If I had to explain to someone what part of the human body carries the spirit I would say it is the same part that carries hope. You can't survive without hope.
Cassia Leo
#46. I can't and won't write without hope.
I'd rather never write again.
Melina Marchetta
#47. But if that is what it meant to win the game, how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, and deprived of what one hopes. [...] There is no peace without hope [...] A warmth of life and an image of death: that was knowledge.
Albert Camus
#48. To be fated to lose. To know destiny itself the architect of my torment. Can it be true? Is to be Loki to be without hope? And if so...to whom can a god appeal for mercy?
Robert Rodi
#49. Together, we can make a change in the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It is our only hope. And without hope we are lost.
Michael Jackson
#50. Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
#51. Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you've got less
Benny Bellamacina
#52. I sing without hope on the boundary
Sarah Kane
#53. the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria - at least for the time being. The Syrian opposition felt betrayed and abandoned. Worse, Syrians were now completely without hope, which is the most dangerous human condition. A man or woman with no hope is capable of anything.
Richard Engel
#54. Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!
Denise Austin
#55. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
Matthew Kelly
#56. We can't live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.
Pete Wilson
#57. Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.
Steven Erikson
#58. Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.
Angela Carter
#59. I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
Jules Verne
#60. Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.
Julian Baggini
#62. Without hope of reward
Provide help to others.
Bear suffering alone,
And share your pleasures with beggars.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#63. Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need
Temitope Owosela
#64. People often do a good deed without hope of reward, but for an evil deed they always demand payment.
L. Frank Baum
#65. And I wish I had the power to tell tem that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost.
Ayn Rand
#66. Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
Elie Wiesel
#67. We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Without hope it is nearly impossible to live. Hope is the air that our spirits breathe.
Kathryn Lasky
#69. You're never without hope, because you're never without prayer.
Max Lucado
#70. We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Ariel Dorfman
#71. We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
Vladimir Lenin
#72. Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher
Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter,
So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly
Singing about her head, as she rode by.
Robert Graves
#73. -You know I've always wanted to break the molds which life forms around one if one lets them.
-Why?
-I want to trespass boundaries, erase all identifications, anything which fixes one permanently into one mold, one place, without hope of change.
Anais Nin
#75. Men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
Fanny Burney
#76. Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten o' clock at night, longing to die, weary of incessant insight and foresight, without delusions and without hope.
George Eliot
#78. There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on ... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.
Oliver Goldsmith
#79. Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.
Luke Rhinehart
#80. According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it will not be denied, that tyrants of every age and sect are the best entitled to such infernal abodes.
Edward Gibbon
#81. The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
#82. Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
Anais Nin
#83. I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
Mary Doria Russell
#84. That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
Albert Camus
#86. When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#88. Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.
Rebecca Solnit
#89. I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
Donald Hall
#90. Hope is the fuel of the ship of dreams. Without hope you can't even get out of the harbor.
Dyan Sheldon
#91. Discomfort without hope of betterment is not a great springboard.
Dorothy Dunnett
#92. Fightning without Hope. It's no way to live its just a way to die.
Lightning Farron
#93. People without hope are a dangerous crowd, even in a republic.
Joe Abercrombie
#94. Choosing to live without hope is to knowingly extinguish ones own life. I choose to live, and so it may just be that hope is my closest companion.
Carrie Delatte
#95. Without hope, the need to punish is the one true religion. Blame must be fixed on some soul other than one's own.
John Burnham Schwartz
#96. Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
#97. A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
Axel Munthe
#99. The name of God is the name of the chance for something absolutely new, for a new birth, for the expectation, the hope, the hope against hope (Rom. 4:18) in a transforming future. Without it we are left without hope and are absorbed by rational management techniques.
John D. Caputo
#100. As long as you could fall farther you distinguished yourself from the fallen. Loss reinstated possibility, but possibility without hope. And perhaps this explains how all of us blithely
Charles D'Ambrosio
